Quote #113

How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?

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  1. A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
  2. Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.
  3. It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.
  4. You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all. :-)
  5. I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
  6. The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
  7. As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that... :-)
  8. As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be…

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